Species of crow, possibly the common raven, Corvus corax. De Avibus, de Corvo, Corvino generi communia quaedam, Corvus species. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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